The porcelain of the bath is cold on my chest, colder than the water on my neck, over my head, over her fingers in my hair. The bathwater...

My therapist was surprised when I said that, and therapists aren’t often surprised. I had said to her, ‘Gender is everywhere. It is in...

Photo 1: I take a photo of myself as I am shaving my left armpit. I lean my phone against the mug, which holds our toothbrushes, to take...

She/ they kneels in front of the mirror, bare knees on rough wood. C starts with scissors. They chop chunks. Hair curls from her/ their...

​ At first there are five of us. This is okay. This is easy. We move around each other. Then there are four. Two of the leftover people...

I swim at the local leisure centre as often as I can, before or after work, in lunch breaks that I return from wet-haired. When it’s...

The First Day “In three days,” says the witch, “You will burn your own town down.” They laugh at her when she says this. The people in...

For me, at least. Although I don’t think I am alone in this. Summertime is less. It is a time of taking things off. It is a time of...

Toni “This isn’t dark. The sky’s barely purple. Real darkness is purple,” says Greta when I tell her I am afraid of the dark. I am lying...

You look at me when I shout, “Jump” at you. Your eyes change colour. You turn around, away from us, and look at the water which is deep...

I wake up dreaming of you and cannot get back to sleep. My hands are sweating. The noise of the television is coming up through the floor...

One summer with the window open wide as a mouth you tell me you do not love me anymore over a bottle of beer we are sharing at five in...